IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.

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IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default. - The Lemmy Club

Lemmy

This is not a coincidence, Apple purposefully make it painful to use anything with any of their products unless it’s one of their products
HEIC is a much better-compressed format than JPEG that all Androids support; iirc JPEG XL (kinda dead) and Google's WebP are the only other big-name formats with better photographic compression. Windows was the only major operating system that chose to have consumers separately pay the patent fee, none of which goes to Apple.
Since Windows 11 22H2, HEIC images work out-of-the-box.
Webp breaks my balls, save a pic from online and it saves with the chrome logo and then doesnt work.
Back when I was on windows I would rename .webp to .jpg and it would open. Now I’m on Linux and it just works.
Better-compressed in saved Mbytes, but comparing images, that compression somehow looks more…fake. Hard to describe how.